There's a siege mentality about Michael Bay's movies, as though viewers are the enemy holed up in a bunker and he's the guy ordering heavy-metal music around-the-clock to wear down our morale and force us to surrender.

Plot-twisting puzzlers are a bubble market in the movies these days, with an arms race of "Inception"-like reality reversals that flip like a coin until dizzy audiences lose all interest in how it lands.

Another paranoid, delusional letter to the editor (“President Obama’s evil agenda,” by Lawrence J. McLennan III, AFN, Jan. 9) was a comedic recital of untruths and hyperbole without a single fact to back them up, but plenty of bombastic opinions masquerading as truth.

To understand any of this, you need to understand what I look like pregnant. Not that I’m pregnant at this moment. At this moment I just look like...

NORFOLK, Va. (AP) — Mitt Romney introduced Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin as his Republican vice presidential running mate on Saturday, turning to the architect of a deeply conservative and intensely controversial long-term budget plan that would remake Medicare and cut trillions in federal spending.

NORFOLK, Va. (AP) — Mitt Romney introduced Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin as his Republican vice presidential running mate on Saturday, turning to the architect of a deeply conservative and intensely controversial long-term budget plan that would remake Medicare and cut trillions in federal spending.

We’ll never know what Ronald Reagan would have done with WhiteHouse.gov, the official website of the White House. But I know my father wouldn’t be abusing it the way Barack Obama is.

We’ll never know what Ronald Reagan would have done with WhiteHouse.gov, the official website of the White House. But I know my father wouldn’t be abusing it the way Barack Obama is.

The real stars of Richard Linklater's "Bernie" are, unquestionably, the townspeople of Carthage, Texas.

Although brimming with stereotypes and clichéd storylines, “The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel” is one of the most surprisingly genuine and entertaining films this year.

Bringing color and fun to an otherwise commercial area of Ahwatukee Foothills is a family business for the van Arkens.

I'll admit it. My heart sank when I read recently that unemployment fell to 8.3 percent. Yes, long-term unemployment and climbing poverty rates are devastating too many families. But we can't afford a cyclical uptick just now if it would mean that Barack Obama might be president for four more years.

WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama has resorted to "extremism" with stifling, anti-growth policies and sought to divide Americans, not unite them, Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels said Tuesday in the formal Republican response to the president's State of the Union address.

Text of President Barack Obama's State of the Union address, as provided by the White House:

Text of President Barack Obama's State of the Union address, as provided by the White House:

President Obama came out with his "No Minority Needs to Learn" program (his plan to allow states to seek a waiver around key provisions, including a 2014 deadline, in President Bush's No Child Left Behind program).

President Obama came out with his "No Minority Needs to Learn" program (his plan to allow states to seek a waiver around key provisions, including a 2014 deadline, in President Bush's No Child Left Behind program).

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Tom Patterson

Tom Patterson

Hospital patients enduring extended bedside stays often complain about feelings of loneliness, isolation and the impersonal nature that the generally sterile environment provides. Often, when family and friends aren’t able to take time out of their busy days to visit, all these patients desire is for someone to talk with them about life outside the hospital – current events, sports, the arts, religion or politics, and even family and friends.

The Republicans in Congress keep proving themselves again to be the defenders of the super wealthy. It all comes back to their mythical belief in supply-side economics. Also known as: Trickle-down economics, Reaganomics and Voodoo economics. Now it's being sold as the whole "job creator" story.

History wasn't made by the Cron family when Major League Baseball's first-year player draft started, but it didn't take away from a great couple of days for the Ahwatukee Foothills residents.

History wasn't made by the Cron family when Major League Baseball's first-year player draft started, but it didn't take away from a great couple of days for the Ahwatukee Foothills residents.

Twenty-seven years after finding out that he was drafted by telegram, Chris Cron watched in sheer amazement Monday as his son, C.J., was selected by the Los Angeles Angels instantly.